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Chengdu Slideshow
Chengdu
Travel Blogs from Chengdu, China
Mainland China here we come!
... buggies. After the museum we headed to the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base. There are only two places in China to see Giant Pandas, the Chengdu Research Base or the Wolong Nature Reserve. Unfortunately, Wolong is over 4 hours from Chengdu by car so ...
Walk to work
Everyday in China is a day of discovery. There are so many things to write about but more time is given to experience than reflection. The many small things I witness every day that are new and so different are amazing. This culture really is completely ...
Chengdu- Home of the Giant Panda
... 50 metres walk from my hotel. Hotel is VERY average with a "box" breakfast and cold showers….only 2 nights thank heavens. Chengdu is the Capital of Sichuan Province and the 4th largest city in China (population over 10m). Sichuan is one of the most ...
Panda Delight
... course the finale was the clothes and mask changing. Spectacular. In a split second costumes and masks would change. It originates in Chengdu and should you find yourself here, it's a must to watch. Highly enjoyable night. We finished it up with ...
Pas grandes choses
... la grosseur de mon index en viande. -J'avais oublie de mentionner le slogan du peanut milk: "more ve, more beautiful"! ??? -Les magasins a Chengdu sont en bloc de magasins a Chengdu. Par exemple, il va y avoir 5 magasins de lavabos, puis 5 de portes de ...
Pandas and Precipitous Peaks
... Now on to a more cuddly note--PANDAS! Sub adult pandas playing roughly with each other Our first site in Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province of China, was to visit the pandas at the Panda Reserve. It's best to leave early so you can catch ...
Chengdu
... our bus, from there is was a 30 min journey to our hotel. I think I'm getting spoilt and that the rest of our journey after China will be a shock since we're enjoying the comforts of 3/4 star hotels which after a 16 hour train journey (and a hangover) is ...
Pandamonium!!!!!
... Happy Spring Festival from China. Kicking off my Spring Festival I went to visit the capital of the Sichuan province, Chengdu. Prior to arrival I imagined bowlfuls of spicy noodles and even spicier meats and vegetables (thanks to watching Anthony Bourdain ...
People's Park and Jinli Street
Our favorite breakfast buffet again. After breakfast we took a taxi to the People's Park, the Central Park of Chengdu. A lot of Chinese cities have a "People's Park". This one was large and beautiful and where we found all the old people. They were ...
Arrive Chengdu
... to what you would expect from an "opera", with lots of skits and shadow puppets etc., but it was a fun night. Tomorrow, we are off to see the Pandas - one of the main reasons for stopping via Chengdu. So be prepared for the many photos to ...
Down time
I am currently on the train from Xi’an to Chengdu in the hard sleeper carriage – 66 berths in one enclosed space with the latest pop sensation ringing out of the speakers and life going on as normal; slurping at noodles, hoiking & ...
A Panda Pit Stop
... . Let me emphasis that I am not a picky eater, but I will accept being called cautiously selective while in China. With less than 5 minutes on the streets of Chengdu, I was throwing caution to the wind and shoving all sorts of food down my gullet. And ...
Lao countryside and panda's!
... Unfortunately it was pouring rain when we arrived in Kunming so it all looked a bit depressing... we decided we wanted to head straight to Chengdu so went to the trainstation to get our tickets. Turns out we are on the run up of this big festival (how do ...
First Two Weeks of Teaching
In my first week I was told to introduce myself so I taught the kids about my family, Australia and some Australian animals – don't know why I thought they could pronounce echidna and platypus but some of them got it! I quickly figured out which ...
Le Cake du ROADTRIP du Carrefour Garrett&Collin
Ca y est, je n'ai pu resister et je suis tomber dans l'enfer du cake. On a dejeuner au gros banana cake bread avec du beurre de peanut-chocolat. TRIP BOUFFE! Crack Cat, le chat aux dommages neurologiques, qui tombe partout mais qui est cute en maudit ...
the new year begins
... with Peace Corps in any way, and I have to say, most emphatically, no. A couple of days ago when Carl and I biked into Chengdu, we went to the closest McDonalds to our house. (For some reason, we like to eat cheap Chinese food near our home, but we ...
From Pandas to Pandemonium
From Pandas to Pademonium We had to bus back to Lijiang and then hop a flight to Chegdu where we had a day to kick around. ChengDu is in the Sichuan province, known for it's humid, wet climate, hot spicy food, and Panda Bears. We spent our day ...
Panda's
... over het buitenland niet zo veel> Goed, vorige mail eindigde denk ik in Xi-An, ondertussen doorgereisd via Chengdu, naar het Tibetaans plateua (deel ervan dat in China ligt, alhoewel de chinezen er nog steeds vanuit gaan dat Tibet in China ligt nvdr). ...
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) or Moon Festival is celebrated on the 15th Day of the eighth lunar month. I didn't really have much idea about what Chinese people actually did on this day, though I did have a long weekend to find out. ...
Hakka village Luodai
... hab, hab ich kurzfristig beschlossen mit dem oeffentlichen Bus nach Luodai zu fahren. Das liegt ein paar Kilometer ausserhalb von Chengdu und ist zwar auch wieder eher staedtisch, bis auf das Zentrum. Da haben die Chinesen ausnahmsweise Mal nicht die ...
Wind roach and gooselips
... here in the same clothes, with the same bags, the same as when we got on the train in Halesworth, England over a year ago. Chengdu is a big city, and with our major interest in food we weren't disappointed: we had no idea just how wide the thin edge ...
Sichuan University Normal School East
... lesson planning is impossible. Hopefully we'll find out more Monday, in time to at least get a little organized. That's all from China today -- Only paid for an hour at the internet cafe. On last note: We'll post more pictures once we find ...
Where will I go now
I just spent 3 nights in Tibet and then caught a flight to Chengdu. Here I was to check out a panda breeding farm and then catch a bus to Chonquing to take a boat trip up the Yangazi river. However at the airport I walked past a flight desk that was ...
Just One in a Billion
... re one in a million, in China, that means there are a thousand people just like you." Left Nepal yesterday for Chengdu, China, home of spicy Sichuan cuisine and the lovable giant panda. The flight provided incredible views of the Himalayan mountains ...
Chegdu
... the phrase book. For those of you with no idea where Chuengdu is, its the other side of China from where I was recently in Beijing. Chengdu is the Provincial Capital of the Sichuan Province, which borders amoungst others the Provinces of Yunnan, ...
Stolen mobile / Handy weg
Went to the Panda Breeding Research Center here in Chengdu and on the way back to my Hostel my mobile got stolen in the crowded bus. By the time its enough!!! Happy to leave China on Monday! Don't want to get ripped off of all my stuff.... Sorry, ...
Shopping in Chengdu
... foods westerners find so odd and difficult to understand but they are on every aisle in all their foreign glory. I love food shopping in China. And the bonus is you get your moneys worth. Half the family budget doesn't go on food. : I love the ...
Giant Pandas
... were kept in a special room and no pictures were aloud. We are now just waiting around for our flight out of China on Thursday, unless you do a trip out of Chengdu there is not much else to do in this city. We decided to head back down into Sabah, ...